From the SR Web site and reporter Erica Curless re: lockdown at Bryan Elementary on CDA's Harrison Avenue:

A Coeur d’Alene man wanted on a burglary warrant is holed up inside a duplex near Bryan Elementary School, though an unidentified woman who was inside the home has crawled from a window.

Thomas Graham, 40, is believed to have a gun. Sheriff and police officials did not know whether the woman was being held against her will, but the elementary school is in lockdown as a precaution, according to Kootenai County Sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger.

The incident began Sunday night when Coeur d’Alene Police got into a high-speed chase with a vehicle registered to Graham. Officers abandoned the chase when speeds became excessive, Wolfinger said.

Officers found Graham and the abandoned vehicle this morning at a duplex at 7th and Harrison. Neighbors in the adjoining duplex told police they heard someone crawling around in the attic this morning, and then saw someone cutting through their bedroom ceiling with a knife.

Wolfinger said the neighbors were evacuated, and negotiators are talking with Graham.

The woman crawled out a window at about noon, and is in police custody.

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